Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- Why does Warren use an irregular rhyme scheme? What's the effect on the reader?
- Do you believe that history is really undone if there is no hope or fear? How do these two human emotions contribute to history?
- What is the speaker's relationship to nature? How can you tell? What do think he wants to convey when he says, "our headlight glare disturbed the doe that, leaping, fled"?
- How is love like death? Does this poem provide any useful comparisons?
- Why is the lover absorbed in "we" and never given an identity? What effect does that have on your reading of this poem?